Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-05

Over 5000 head of cattle have left
Fort Worth by rail and over the trail this
week.
A heavy shipment of sheep from Tom
Green county, bound for Chicago, will
pass through Fort Worth this week.
Sixteen carloads of cattle came in
from San Antonio over the Missouri Pa
cific, and were unloaded at the stock
yards here.
A tremendous movement of cattle over
the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe from
Texas into the Indian Territory will be-
gin in few days.
Captain John Knight, the well known
Palo Pinto county stockman, was in Fort
Worth yesterday and reports cattle get
ting fat aud grass fine.
81. NJ. Baldwin and Ben O'Neiu of
Cleveland, Ohio, interested largely in
cattle in COttle county, leave this morn
ing for the Panhandle to look after their
interests.
T. T. D. Andrews has received his COM
mission as agent of the Bureau of Animal
Industry, and leaves to day to meet Colo
mel Taylor, also agent of the bureau, to
arrange the work to be done.
Andrews Bros. & Co. startsd two herds,
numbering $500 head, of yearling steers
on the trail yesterday from Fort Worth
destined for Montana. The cattle belong
TO the Home, Land and Cattle Company
Of st. Louis.
James S. Livingstone of Hamilton
county, the most prosperous and best
known stOCkman in the county, was in
Fort Worth yesterday with 1000 head of
wearing steers, which he sold here to be
driven to Montana. Mr. Livingstone re-
ports fine, grass fat cattle and plenty of
stock water in his section Of country.
From every section of the Panhandle
and Western Texas cattlemen report
grass as excellent, plenty of stock water
and cattle fattening very fast. 1t is also
the general opinion that prices will be
better this year than last. If this should
prove true the stockmen will regain their
former prosperity, for they have the cat
tie, and fine ones, too.
In conversation with Mr.. Dugan of the
J. P. Waties Company last night, he
said the company nov had $50 brood
mares in their yards and some twenty sad
die horses. He said that everything was
encouraging and when grass was well up
in the north the trade would be very
heavy. In bringing the last shipment
from Lerdo to Chihuahua the train ran
over four COWS asleep on the track and
was ditcheo, seventy of the best horses
which were loaded in the front cars being
killed, but the Mexican Central will
probably make good the loss.
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ii. NJ. Baldwin, a well known Ohio
stOCkman, said yesterday 1t would be
CREST thing for Western Texas if the
stoCkmen would raise mules. The
grasses were of such character in this
part of the state that they held their
nutritive qualities when the tame
grasses of Missouri and Illinois were
dead, and for this reason mules could be
raised so that three-year old would cost
from $50 to $50 less tnan the same char
aCteT of mule in the north. Again, he
said mules would be grazed on lands in
Texas costing from $3.50 to S. per
acre, while in the north the
land cost $50 and $50. Mr..
Baldwin said that from location, fine
water supply and pasturege facilities
Fort Worth was now the best stock mar
ket in Texas, and would IN the near
future De the greatest stock market in the
southwest. He is greatly impressed with
Fort Worth.